pudge's Journal: Dead Sea Scrolls

I went to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit a the Pacific Science Center in Seattle today. It was OK. It had very few actual manuscripts -- six biblical manuscripts, and five others -- but it was better than nothing. I was glad I saw it, because it's a rare opportunity. The most impressive one was 11Q5, a Psalms manuscript.

They had a bunch of textiles, jars, coins, and other things found at Qumran, too.

The least impressive part was at the very end: in a fit of political correctness, they decided to display a bunch of old manuscripts from various religions: Islam, Hindu, Buddhism. That would be like going to a guitar exhibit and having an accordion and tuba next to the door on the way out. Silly.

I'm offended!

[TechnoLust]

What about people who don't believe in these so called "scrolls"? I wanna see some stone tablets! ;-)

Seriously we'll all be a lot better off when we're so fed up of being "PC" we give the idea the boot and start saying how we REALLY feel.

Less PC than Paranoid?

[rjamestaylor]

I bet the fear of protesters (or worse) had an impact on that decision. Religion of Peace.